Well, it’s Friday already and as I get ready for the weekend, I realized that I’ve been a little slack on the blog-front this week.  Sorry about that, but work has cut deeply into my hunting and my web surfing.  Next week doesn’t look much better.  But with that in mind, I’ve put together a little NC postcard for anyone who’s still around.

First, and foremost, I just found out this morning that I’ll be missing a special event up here in the Raleigh/Durham area!  That’s right, it’s Hog Days in the town of Hillsborough.  I don’t know how I missed it!   

Of course the event hasn’t really got anything to do with hunting, but it does have to do with something else I like a lot… NC barbecue! 

Here’s a little critical information about the event:

While barbecue is the basis of the festival, fun for the whole family is the focus. A variety of activities are held each year as part of Hog Day: fun contests, including Hog Hollering, and Guess the Weight of the Pig contests; the area’s largest antique car show, an arts & crafts area with more than 100 vendors; and a children’s area featuring activities and rides. Hillsborough Hog Day also offers regionally and nationally known musicians, live on stage throughout the kickoff party on Friday night and all day on Saturday.

Hillsborough Hog Day is held each year on the third Saturday of June, in Downtown Hillsborough. The festival is attended by up to 35,000 people. Shuttle service is provided to the Hog Day site from south and north of town.

I’m headed back down to the coast to visit my mom and family over the weekend, so I’ll be missing this one. 

In other “news”, there’s been quite the uproar up on the edge of the Smoky Mountains as apparently Bigfoot has made a new appearance.  It started with a sighting by Tim Peeler up near Casar, NC.  Apparently while calling coyotes, Peeler had a face-to-face encounter with a man-like creature “about 10-feet tall” and covered in “beautiful hair.” 

Check out the audio of Peeler’s 911 call. 

On the heels of Peeler’s sighting, apparently a bigfoot track was found near the town of Morganton.  In an article about the discovery, farmer Pork Lowman (why couldn’t I have been named Pork?) said he was way out in the backcountry when he found the footprint.

A farmer said he recently stumbled across a larger-than-life footprint near the intersection of Highway 18 and George Hildebran School Road in the southern part of Burke County.

Pork Lowman said he was walking in the woods when he came across the print, which measures 15 by 8 inches.

“It’s out here in no-man’s land, and that’s what really got me,” Lowman said.

I dunno, but I’m starting to get a complex.  Last time I hunted up in Mendocino County, CA, they had bigfoot sightings.  Now I travel almost 3000 miles across the country, and here he is again.  It begs the question:

Am I being stalked by Sasquatch?

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